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Antidepressant Scripts Up 16 Million Over 3-Year Period and most not...
Reuters HealthDay reported on July 24, 2008 on a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality which found that the prescription of antidepressant drugs has increased significantly over a...
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Children in U.S. 3xs more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medications...
Science Daily reported on September 25, 2008 on a study which will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, which found that children in the...
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Take The Client Where They're At
David G. Markham, L.C.S.W. describes his practice and what he has learned over the years. The video is 6:04.
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Purpose of marriage video 1
I am planning on doing a series of videos on marriage. I have been a licensed clinical social worker for 40 years and have accumulated a lifetime of experience which I think may be of benefit to...
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Counter recruiting of Army of None
I work with adolescents as part of my general practice and in the last couple of months I have had 3 or 4 young people say that they are thinking about joining the military. As a therapist I am...
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Longer term psychotherapy works according to a study published in JAMA
Reuters Healthday reported on 09/30/08 on a study which appeared in the October 1, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association which found that long term psychodynamic psychotherapy...
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1/4 - 1/3 of females in the United States military are raped by their fellow...
I was reading at article recently which said that 1/3 of female soldiers in the United States military report being raped. I thought, "How can that be? That can't be right," and so I did a little...
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Pediatric drug samples unsafe practice
Free drug samples pose risk to children's health according to a study in the October, 2008 issue of the journal, Pediatrics, as reported by Reuter's HealthDay on October 6, 2008. Here is a snippet...
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12% of United States troops in Iraq and 17% of troops in Afghanistan are on...
On June 5, 2008, Time Magazine ran a story entitled, "America's Medicated Army". Here is a snippet from the article: The medicines are intended not only to help troops keep their cool but also to...
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns Americans about military-industry complex
President Eisenhower warns Americans against the military-industrial complex in his exit speech on January 17, 1961. We should have listened to him. He was a Republican. Video lasts 2:30. This is...
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Markham's Behavioral Health Returning to Typepad
After a six year haitus, Markham's Behavioral Health will be returning to Typepad. I will be posting here weekly about topics that pertain to mental health.
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Copycat suicides
From Science Daily Heightened newspaper coverage after a suicide might have a significant impact on the initiation of some teenage suicide clusters, according to new research published in The Lancet...
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Link between reduced sleep and childhood obesity
From Science Daily on 05/20/14: One of the most comprehensive studies of the potential link between reduced sleep and childhood obesity finds compelling evidence that children who consistently received...
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Resuming posts
New articles will be appearing on Markham's Behavioral Health on Typepad after a hiatus of two years. The posts will be of interest to other Mental Heatlh Professionals as well as the public interested...
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Dr. Raymond Barfield is interviewed in January, 2016 issue of The Sun Magazine
The interview in the January, 2016 issue of The Sun Magazine is with Raymond Barfield is a pediatric oncologist with a Ph.D also in philosophy. He currently works at Duke University where he is a...
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